Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-25

VOLUME VIII.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
Tur Government is to institute a coast
.atro, TO aid local authorities in quaran-
tine regulation.
vurr.M O'BRIEN arrived on the 18th
At Queenstown, and was gwen an enthu-
siastic reception.
MINISTER MCLANE has dem andcd Of the
rrarch Government the release Of an
,u,orican citizen confined In a French
lunatic asylum.
r,v Mormons at Salt Lake City, have
,,anad call for constitutional conven-
.;on n meet on June 80 for the purpose of
arran ping to apply for Statehood.
1- ia reported that Sir John Macdonald,
.ha canadian Premier, has threatened to
rao;gn if the House of Comm ons adopts
~ resolution in favor of total prohibi-
ton.
Tur President is represented as con-
combating a July jaunt. He is also said
to be formulating plan OF tariff re-
VS. ion 10 submit to congressional consid.
srati0n.
NINE. FuRsCH-MADI was granted a ver-
Sct for s. 1872 and costs in her suit at New
York against Charles E. Locke, Of the
American Opera Company, on the 18th.
There was no defense
TIE Winnipeg (Mln.) Ere, Press warns
the Canadian Government at Ottawa that
if the present policy Is pursued toward
Manitoba revolution worse than Canada
ever knew will be the result.
Ex-TREAsURER CONRAD N. JORDAN was
presented at Washington, on the night OF
the 18th, with a magnificent silver punch
bowl by the employees of the treasurer s
office of the Treasury Department.
THE- general term Of the New York Su-
prema Court handed down decision on
the 18th affirming the conviction OF John
O'Neil one Of the New Y ork "boodle"
aldermen, now serving a sentence at Sing
Sing prison.
THE Aniover (Mass.) board Of visitors
and the Andover Theological seminary on
the nth voted to dispense with the serv'
ices of President E. G. Smith and Prof.
Woodruff as the outcome of the recent
trials for heresy.
TIE arrival of two hundred American
zed Czechs, at Prague, Bohemia, who
have returne TO the fatherland, has been
celebrated with the greatest enthusiasm
and eiotcing A large reception was held
on the l1th in their honor.
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TIE distress caused by the recent earth
qu'ke in Sonora and particularly in
Bavispe, has become so great that the
charitably inclined throu gh0ut the north
ern States of Mexico have commenced
collecting contributions for its relief.
TIE monster parade and mass-meeting
in Union Square, New York, on the even
Ing Of the 18th, in honor Of DR.. McGlynn,
Is said to have been one of the largest
affairs of the kind ever witnessed in the
city since the political parades of 1884.
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THE dock trials of the machinery of the
cruiser Chicago, which have just been
finished have resulted satisfactorily and
the vessel is ready to start from Chester
to New York. Engineer j. w. Thompson
mas been permanently attached to the
Chicago
TIE Princess OF Wales and her family
visited the Wild West show on the 18th,
together with score Of foreign royalties,
al Of whom rode in the Dead wood coach,
me Princess being seated ON the box by
ne side Of Buffalo Bill, who drove the
N'ses attached to the vehicle.
HE enormous influx of visitors to par
ucpate in tae jubilee festivities in Lon
uOn has exceeded the most extravagant
@umates, ana the foods of arrivals con-
unue undated. The hotels have long
SINCE ceased to receive guests, and the
lodging houses are filed to overfio wing.
IHE Detroits still stood at the head Of
.ne National Base Ball League, the Bos-
IONS being close second and Chicago up
10 fourth place at the close of the week
ended the 18th. The st. Louis Browns
no!d the lead in the Association, but their
per centagc dropped little during the
week
l. He returns from the local elections in
Wisconsin, which are now all received,
snow that several Thousand won en- voted
iof city, village and township officer
under the new law which enables them to
10 so at any election where officers are
euosen who have any connection with the
schools.
iHE American Board of Foreign Mis-
siohs have received news of terribl e
anime in Asia Minor. The harvest time
uaS passel, but not a single sheaf Of
sfain Will be cut in all the plains ordi-
70 ssrlly so fertile, save in few fields ar
ssnclally watered. The drought has been
'e worst for centuries.
ua n'ENTs have recently transpired in Mil
nHauhee, Wis, which promise to clear up
a.. ose Mmyste,y surrounding the abduction
~, w"lIlle Dickinson, of Common wealth.
,ir' i,S' SIX years ago. The boy, who was
NJ ,hy years old at the time, was kidnapped